.hover not working in IE6 after transparent .PNG fix (help?)

.hover not working in IE6 after transparent .PNG fix (help?)

Hello,

Here is the website I'm working on:
DEMO

For my navbar and footer I use jQuery to do a nice fade in and fade out:

  1. $(function(){
        var navbar = $('#navbar'),
            navbarLinks = $(".navbarlink", navbar);
     
    navbarLinks.hover(function () {             
       navbarLinks.not(this).stop().animate({opacity: 0.3}, "slow");
        }, function () {      
            navbarLinks.stop().animate({opacity: 1.0}, "slow");       
        });
    });

    $(function(){
        var footer = $('#footer'),
            footerLinks = $(".footerlink", footer),
            allFadeables = $('.divider', footer).add(footerLinks);
     
    footerLinks.hover(function () {             
       allFadeables.not(this).stop().animate({opacity: 0.3}, "slow");
        }, function () {      
            allFadeables.stop().animate({opacity: 1.0}, "slow");       
        });
    });




















I'm also using jQuery to fade in/out my splash screen and that gets messed up also:
  1. $(window).load(function() {
     $('#splash').fadeIn(2000, function() {
        $(this).delay(500).fadeOut(2000, function() {
            $('#container, #reel').fadeIn(1000); });
           });  
    });






I'm currently cross-browsing the website and I found a very nice JavaScript hack that fixes the .PNG's so they work in IE6:
DD_belatedPNG

It works but it messes up my jQuery so that:
1.) My splash screen image is not centered correctly
2.) When you rollover the navbar or footer links they work for one cycle but then they become un-active after that...

can anyone help me please fix this so it will work properly? I bet after the JavaScript .PNG hack runs it changes the item so that it is not getting selected correctly...

Thanks for your help,
tim

P.S. I have this website working on IE7/8, FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera and iPhone. I'm only having this problem with IE6 and I know that the .PNG hack is causing the problem.